From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Newsgroup with large article numbers
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:49:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hd4sren2.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.gnus@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3slod1mi1.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>> Gnus doesn't seem to like article numbers greater than hex 7ffffff
>> (134,217,727 decimal). This is 4 bits sooner than I would expect it to
>> break, but I see references to emacs using 28-bit integers so it must be
>> using the last few bits for something else. I wouldn't normally use gnus
>> for newsgroups with this many messages, but when I did try it, gnus thought
>> there were no new messages. Is there a workaround?
> Nope.
Of course there is: use a 64bit system.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-17 4:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 3:27 Bob Babcock
2006-04-16 17:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2006-04-17 4:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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